00:00Good day, welcome to the gulf news update for Thursday, August 2.
00:07Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:09President Donald Trump has urged US Attorney General Jeff Sessions to terminate the investigation
00:14into Russian campaign interference right now.
00:17The tweets from the US President forced his lawyers to clarify that Trump was not ordering
00:21Sessions to take a specific action.
00:24Trump called the prosecution of his former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, a hoax and
00:28escalated his attacks on the investigation, led by special counsel Robert Mueller.
00:33The tweets came at a particularly sensitive time in the investigation, as a federal jury
00:38in Virginia is hearing evidence in Manafort's trial on tax evasion and fraud charges.
00:43Huawei Technologies Company pulled ahead of Apple to claim the No. 2 position in global
00:48smartphone shipments in the second quarter.
00:51The new spot puts Huawei just behind Samsung, solidifying the rise of Chinese competitors.
00:56Huawei shipped 54.2 million phones in the quarter, 41% more than a year earlier, to
01:02jump ahead of the iPhone maker for the first time, according to the market research firm
01:07IDC.
01:08Pakistani actress-model Misha Shafi's sexual harassment appeal against actor Ali Zafar
01:14has been dismissed by the governor of Punjab over a technicality.
01:17Shafi had filed a complaint to the governor under the Protection Against Harassment of
01:21Women at Workplace Act 2010.
01:24However, her appeal was rejected because she wasn't an actual employee at the time the
01:29harassment allegedly took place, and was in no way bound by a formal contract.
01:34Shafi's legal team has responded it is looking to file another appeal on a competent forum.
01:39And finally, the weather.
01:41Today's high across the UAE will be 42 degrees Celsius, dropping to 31 degrees at night.
01:46That's all for now.
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